Holy Scripture
Lamentations 5:4
A church father on this verse
“Here particular miseries are viewed which the people suffer. As stated: "We must pay for the water we drink," Namely, because of the people's slavery, and due to their affliction. As Verse 9 records: "We get our bread at the peril of our lives, because of the sword in the wilderness." As to the people's slavery are tw…”
Source: Septuagint
Original
4We have drunk our water for money; Our wood is sold to us for a burden on our neck:
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2Our inheritance has been turned away to aliens, Our houses to strangers:
3We are become orphans, we have no father, Our mothers are as widows.
— Lamentations 5:4 —
5We have been persecuted, We have labored, we have had no rest.
6Egypt gave the hand to us, Assyria to their own satisfaction.